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Originally Posted by The other Gabe
...being a Transgender person has nothing to do with sexual contact. it's a matter of feeling that the sex you were assigned at birth was not correct and wanting to be some other gender. People thinking it's about sex is part of the problem here - people's sense of identity should not be boiled down to worrying about them doin the do or whatever. When you think that people are just "acting trans" or whatever for the purpose of sex, you're marginalizing their valid feelings and opinions (sorry if this comes off as hostile or putting words in your mouth, I couldn't think of a better way to phrase it).
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Point well taken. (i think) I didn't mean to imply that transgender people think about or act on their sexual desires anymore or less than anybody else. Fortunately for me, I don't do room assignments & besides expecting students and mentors follow the First code conduct, discipline is not one of my first order duties. But. For the mentors that do, inappropriate contact, parent demands are 2 of many issues they have to worry about. This is true regardless of orientation. It is not that they worry any less about hetero contact. Actually probably more so since statistically there is more of that.